Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist.
He, Robert Andrew Millikan, famed physicist, first isolated the electron, detected the cosmic pulse that throbs in the solar systems of broad-girthed planets and infinitesimal atoms alike. Like Master...
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